Good news that the United Nations Security Council
has agreed on the text of a draft resolution on ridding Syria of chemical
weapons.Whether this can be a start to meaningful negotiations to end conflict
in the Middle East is debateable, however, as the whole world is aware of the
possession of nuclear weapons by Israel, and that country`s determination not to
allow any other country in the region to have them.
There is another matter which can only serve to
encourage distrust, and that is, of course, the position of America, and her
foreign policy, which supports Israel, no matter what.
According to the respected journalist, George
Monbiot, in an article for the Guardian earlier this month, America`s hypocrisy
can know no bounds. The details of chemical weapon use by America in Vietnam is
well known,especially that of agent orange and napalm, but how many people are
aware of more recent events? Monbiot tells us that in 1997 the US agreed to
decommission "the 31,000 tonnes of sarin,VX,mustard gas and other agents it
possessed within ten years"; surprisingly this didn`t happen , and in 2012 "it
claimed they would be gone by 2021"!
Israel also not only used the chemical weapon,
white phosphorous, as a weapon in Gaza, it also "refuses to ratify the Chemical
Weapons Convention". Both Russia and America are keeping the pathogen for
smallpox "in cold storage" in order to "develop defences against possible
biological weapons attack"!
Naturally, our wonderful government cannot be kept
out of the discussion, for didn`t it allow for chemicals known to be essential
in the production of sarin to be sold to Syria?
How the so-called leaders can sit down together and
display deep concern and even anger when a country uses such awful weapons, and
still keep their faces straight, is beyond understanding. For goodness sakes,
Labour, keep out of this madness, and pledge to scrap Trident straightaway, with
the hypocrisy and secrecy of other countries being stated as one of the main
reasons
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